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<blockquote data-quote="bbsam" data-source="post: 805835" data-attributes="member: 22662"><p>Ah, to the profit like any good capitalist will flock! I would say that I don't know and neither do you, 287. Where does Fedex spend the income compared with UPS. I know that Ground has been pouring money into hubs and facilities and technology. While that depletes from the bottom line in terms of a balance sheet, it is still sound business, is it not? Seriously, the two UPS terminals around here haven't seen an upgrade literally in 20 years (I did use to work at one of them). Now, while the court costs are substantive, I doubt seriously that they eat up the "30% savings". Exactly what would that number be, anyway. </p><p> </p><p>In my previous post (and I will reiterate it here) I said that I believe things will get much better for Ground drivers under the ISP agreements. Why? Because for the first time I will have the ability to go to the company and say, "Look, if we want good, competent, safe drivers, this is what the competition pays and therefore we have to be competitive with the market." I'm ready to do that. But I am also ready to hear from the company, "Fine. But the competition has drivers making 26 stops per hour in this area and if we are going to pay that money, this is what is expected." What's not fair about that? We may not get UPS scale, but we will get better. So you can remain snarky and insulting about the model all you want, but the fact remains your "information" (a driver as source) is even more limited than mine and the conclusions jumped to don't match what FDX has done in the past. A six month time-line? This company doesn't do anything that major on a six month time-line. May take six months to make a decision on the direction the company heads, but the actual momement? Never.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bbsam, post: 805835, member: 22662"] Ah, to the profit like any good capitalist will flock! I would say that I don't know and neither do you, 287. Where does Fedex spend the income compared with UPS. I know that Ground has been pouring money into hubs and facilities and technology. While that depletes from the bottom line in terms of a balance sheet, it is still sound business, is it not? Seriously, the two UPS terminals around here haven't seen an upgrade literally in 20 years (I did use to work at one of them). Now, while the court costs are substantive, I doubt seriously that they eat up the "30% savings". Exactly what would that number be, anyway. In my previous post (and I will reiterate it here) I said that I believe things will get much better for Ground drivers under the ISP agreements. Why? Because for the first time I will have the ability to go to the company and say, "Look, if we want good, competent, safe drivers, this is what the competition pays and therefore we have to be competitive with the market." I'm ready to do that. But I am also ready to hear from the company, "Fine. But the competition has drivers making 26 stops per hour in this area and if we are going to pay that money, this is what is expected." What's not fair about that? We may not get UPS scale, but we will get better. So you can remain snarky and insulting about the model all you want, but the fact remains your "information" (a driver as source) is even more limited than mine and the conclusions jumped to don't match what FDX has done in the past. A six month time-line? This company doesn't do anything that major on a six month time-line. May take six months to make a decision on the direction the company heads, but the actual momement? Never. [/QUOTE]
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